Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

Nothing in this compact shall be construed as
affecting the obligations of the United States of America
to Indian tribes.

Article VIII
Present perfected rights to the beneficial use of
waters of the Colorado River System are unimpaired by
this compact. Whenever storage capacity of 5,000,000
acre feet shall have been provided on the main Colorado
River within or for the benefit of the Lower Basin, then
claims of such rights, if any, by appropriators or users of
waters in the Lower Basin, against appropriators or
users of water in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be
satisfied from water that may be stored not in conflict
with Article III.
All other rights to beneficial use of waters of
the Colorado River System shall be satisfied solely from
the water apportioned to that Basin in which they are
situate.

Article IX
Nothing in this compact shall be construed to
limit or prevent any State from instituting or
maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or equitable,
for the protection of any right under this compact or the
enforcement of any of its provisions.

Article X
This compact may be terminated at any time by
the unanimous agreement of the signatory States. In the
event of such termination all rights established under it
shall continue unimpaired.

Article XI
This compact shall become binding and
obligatory when it shall have been approved by the
Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the
Congress of the United States. Notice of approval by
the Legislatures shall be given by the Governor of each
signatory State to the Governors of the other signatory
States and to the President of the United States, and the
President of the United States is requested to give notice
to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by
the Congress of the United States.
In Witness Whereof, The Commissioners have
signed this compact in a single original, which shall be
deposited in the archives of the Department of State of
the United States of America and of which a duly
certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of
each of the signatory States.
Done at the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this
Twenty-fourth day of November, A.D. One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Twenty-Two.

W. S. Norviel,
W. F. McClure,
Delph E. Carpenter,
1. G. Scrugham,
Stephen B. Davis, Jr.,

R E. Caldwell,
Frank E. Emerson.
Approved:
Herbert Hoover.

37-61-103. Approval waived. That the provisions of the
fIrst paragraph of article XI of the Colorado River
Compact, making said compact effective when it has
been approved by the legislature of each of the
signatory states, are hereby waived and said compact
shall become binding and obligatory upon the state of
Colorado and upon the other signatory states, which
have ratified or may hereafter ratify it, whenever at least
six of the signatory states have consented thereto and
the congress of the United States has given its consent
and approval, but this article shall be of no force or
effect until a similar act or resolution has been passed or
adopted by the legislatures of the states of California,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

37-61-104. Certified copies of compact. That certified
copies of this article be forwarded by the govemor of
the state of Colorado to the president of the United
States, the secretary of state of the United States, and
the governors of the states of Arizona, California,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

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